On Tuesday, 2009-12-08, Michal Svoboda wrote: > Patricia Max wrote 1945 bytes: > > I wanted to upgrade my Fedora system, but I wound up with KDE4 which I > > probably can upgrade now to a later version. However, it does not > > function the way KDE3 does, and I don't want to try to sort out the > > issues. > > Yes, that's exactly the problem with KDE4 being a KDE. It replaced KDE3 > when it should not have. KDE3 and KDE4 are two different products, and > were supposed to be installable side by side, just as with any other > window manager (or "software collection" if you will -- by the way I > believe the whole SC name thing is a step in the wrong direction too). KDE3 and KDE4 are two different *sets* of products which is what the "whole SC name thing" is trying to clarify. I am not a big fan of the SC name in particular but I couldn't come up with a better one either. I like the names for the product categories though, especially the possibility to address workspace and applications separately (this always kind of worked for the development platform). > And indeed back when 4.0 was out, KDE people got away with the infamous > "you can still use 3.5.10, it is extremely polished blah blah". But then > at some point, suddenly, distributors marked this polished thing as > obsolete and people were *forced* to abandon it in favour of a new and > immature and completely different KDE4. Actually only some did, mainly those which have a target audience geared towards new stuff. I am still using KDE3.3 at work on RHEL4.7 and I think even if we upgraded to RHEL5.x (whatever is the most recent version) we would have KDE3.y available there as well. > And I agree that what's happening is not the UNIX way, not by a long > shot. Because you can not simply take the compositing kdewin4 and > install it in kdewin3's stead, as you can replace tcsh with bash. Are you sure? As far as I remember using a different window manager has always been an option. I think in KDE3 one would have to set the KDEWM environment variable and I think in KDE4 you have the additional option of doing it through a selection in system settings. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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